also..how LONG a perfume stays has to do with the amount of oil in your skin...dry skin won't hold scents as long (I know that for a fact..got dry skin...)

I used to do what you do with the going and buying it...then learned to try it on my wrist (never one of those paper strips..won't work!), wear it for an hour, then sniff it again...usually that's enough time for your body to change it if its going to.

Yes, on the winter perfumes..always a heavier scent due to the warm weather and they also have more of an oil base to them, and not many people can handle smelling heavy scents in hot weather. I know it will make me ill when someone does that.

Ohh gee...this lady that I used to work with would use Estee Lauder Youth Dew..in fact she bathed in it, I think..never have liked that scent but I was also pregnant at the time and it would send me RUNNING to the bathroom to be ill when I smelled her walk by. Asked her nicely to not use as much, if not at all, and she used MORE....lovely person...Also..smell of popcorn would do that and I LOVE popcorn..go figure..